2.Budget deadlines.
The following time limitations apply to adoption of a school budget under this section.

A. At least 7 days before the initial meeting of the legislative body responsible for
adopting a budget, the school administrative unit shall provide a detailed budget
document to that legislative body and to any person who requests one and resides within
the geographic area served by the school administrative unit. [2005, c. 2, Pt. D, §62 (NEW); 2005, c. 2, Pt. D, §§72, 74 (AFF); 2005, c. 12, Pt. WW, §18 (AFF).]

B. Notwithstanding a provision of law or charter to the contrary, school administrative
units may adopt an annual budget prior to June 30th. The school budgets for career
and technical education regions must be adopted on or before August 1st. [2005, c. 2, Pt. D, §62 (NEW); 2005, c. 2, Pt. D, §§72, 74 (AFF); 2005, c. 12, Pt. WW, §18 (AFF).]

C. Notwithstanding any municipal charter provision, ordinance or other law to the contrary,
if the level of state subsidy for the next school year is not finalized in accordance
with this chapter before June 1st, the school board may delay a school budget meeting
otherwise required to be held before July 1st to a date after July 1st. If a school
board elects to delay a school budget meeting under this paragraph, the meeting must
be held and the budget approved within 30 days of the date the commissioner notifies
the school board of the amount allocated to the school administrative unit under section
15689-B. When a school budget meeting is delayed under this paragraph, the school
administrative unit may continue operation of the unit at the same budget levels as
were approved for the previous year. Continued operation under the budget for the
previous year is limited to the time between July 1st and the date the new budget
goes into effect. [2005, c. 2, Pt. D, §62 (NEW); 2005, c. 2, Pt. D, §§72, 74 (AFF); 2005, c. 12, Pt. WW, §18 (AFF).]

A. Except as provided in subsection 4, the budget format is that prescribed by a majority
of the school board until an article prescribing the school budget format is approved
by a majority of voters in an election in which the total vote is at least 20% of
the number of votes cast in the municipality in the last gubernatorial election, or
200, whichever is less. [2005, c. 2, Pt. D, §62 (NEW); 2005, c. 2, Pt. D, §§72, 74 (AFF); 2005, c. 12, Pt. WW, §18 (AFF).]

B. The format of the school budget may be determined in accordance with section 1485. [2009, c. 571, Pt. E, §27 (AMD).]

C. It is the intent of the Legislature that a school board shall attempt to obtain public
participation in the development of the school budget format. [2005, c. 2, Pt. D, §62 (NEW); 2005, c. 2, Pt. D, §§72, 74 (AFF); 2005, c. 12, Pt. WW, §18 (AFF).]

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2009, c. 571, Pt. E, §27 (AMD)
.]

4.Budget format; town or city charter.
In a municipality where the responsibility for final adoption of the school budget
is vested by municipal charter in a council, the school budget format may be changed
through amendment of the charter under the home rule procedures of Title 30-A, chapter
111, except that the amendment must be approved by a majority of voters in an election
in which the total vote is at least 20% of the number of votes cast in the municipality
in the last gubernatorial election.

5.Budget format; town meeting.
When the final budget authority is vested in a town meeting operating under the general
enabling procedures of Title 30-A, the format of the school budget may be determined
by the town meeting or under the procedures of Title 30-A, section 2522 or 2528.

6.Budget format; community school district.
The following provisions apply to the budget format of a community school district.

A. An article containing the district's proposed budget format must be placed on the
next warrant issued or ballot printed if:

(1) A majority of the district school committee votes to place it on the warrant
or ballot; or

(2) A written petition signed by at least 10% of the number of voters voting in the
last gubernatorial election in each municipality within the community school district
requests it to be on the warrant or ballot. [2005, c. 2, Pt. D, §62 (NEW); 2005, c. 2, Pt. D, §§72, 74 (AFF); 2005, c. 12, Pt. WW, §18 (AFF).]

7.Budget format; articles.
The articles prescribed in this chapter must be included in the budget format and
be voted on in the adoption of the budget in order to determine state and local cost
sharing.